Abstract

Background: There is an increase in dengue fever outbreaks since the past few decades. The reasons which could be partially attributed to this includes rapid urbanization, climate change and population growth.

Aims & Objective: To assess clinical profile of cases, interventions made and associated environmental factors.

Materials and Methods: A retrospective assessment of fever outbreak was done by a cross sectional house to house survey. Information regarding presentation of fever cases, interventions made and associated environmental factors were studied using interview method, after taking informed consent from all fever cases or their care takers during the outbreak.

Results: Age group commonly affected was of 15 to 44 years. Most common symptom was fever 65 (95.6%), followed by headache and muscle pain. There were 46 (67.6%) cases of dengue fever, 10 (14.7%) confirmed cases of enteric fever and 2 (2.9%) deaths observed among the fever cases. Though there were potential larval breeding places found, none of them had larvae. Most of the households were procuring filtered water for drinking.


Conclusion: There was outbreak of dengue fever as well as enteric fever with many environmental factors contributing to it. Repeated awareness campaigns among public and a well-equipped health care system with efficient surveillance system can avoid such outbreaks in future.

Key words: Outbreak; Dengue Fever; Urbanization